The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Dec 10, 2004

1h 59m

★ 7.1

The deeper you go, the weirder life gets.

Overview

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

Genres

Adventure

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

American Empirical Pictures

Touchstone Pictures

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Cast

Steve Zissou

Bill Murray

Ned Plimpton

Owen Wilson

Jane Winslett-Richardson

Cate Blanchett

Eleanor Zissou

Anjelica Huston

Klaus Daimler

Willem Dafoe

Alistair Hennessey

Jeff Goldblum

Oseary Drakoulias

Michael Gambon

Vladimir Wolodarsky

Noah Taylor

Bill Ubell

Bud Cort

Pelé dos Santos

Seu Jorge

Anne-Marie Sakowitz

Robyn Cohen

Vikram Ray

Waris Ahluwalia

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